Posted
by
samzenpus
on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @11:29AM
from the omg-ponies dept.

If the strain of constantly typing emoticons is killing your fingers, and you've been reprimanded at work for typing :-( when you meant :-) the Emoticon Keyboard may be the answer to your prayers. The tiny keyboard connects via USB and ensures you'll never type the wrong emotion again. The only flaw I see is the lack of a giant LOL key.

When [he was] asked if he is constantly laughing, his reply was, "Sure."

The "he was" could be understood. You used "was asked" and "reply was." Seems legit to me. (granted you could replace "he was" with "he is" and then you would've been wrong, but the way above is correct)

This device reminds me of that top 10 quote over at bash. I want to stab someone over the internet for making this.
However I have taken the time to create an installation manual to go be shipped with the device:
1) Place your computer back in box.
2) Return to POS.

Peter Gibbons: Let me ask you something. When you come in on monday and you're not feeling real well, does anyone ever say to you, "Sounds like someone has a case of the mondays?"Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.

Now people are too lazy to type emoticons, which are used by people who are too lazy to express their emotion with words.

Efficiency is one thing, but now laziness is more efficient? But how much more efficient can it be? Instead of typing two characters, you've got to take your hand off the keyboard, locate the specific emoticon button and press it, then return your hand to the keyboard.

Maybe it's not for efficient laziness, maybe it's for stupidity and lack of creativity. I remember when emoticons were

Now people are too lazy to type emoticons, which are used by people who are too lazy to express their emotion with words.

The same could be said of vocal intonation. People speaking to one another are far too lazy to speak in an inscrutable monotone and meticulously clarify the emotional context of every comment they make. (Note that this is meant sarcastically)

It's a tool to help bring text messaging into greater parity with spoken conversation. It's a *good* thing.

Many phones with touchscreen keyboards have an emoticon keyboard along with the phone-style keypad and qwerty. Many simply with buttons have emoticons on autocomplete or under symbols options. This is simply an upscale.
I can't find the source (TFA gives barely any details) but if this is a student project, I like. It would actually sell well. If this is a commercial product, oh god no. Yes, it will sell well, yes.

More importantly, it doesn't in any way assist with efficiently creating ASCII phalli of various lengths. After all, some cases only require 8===D whereas other scenarios may necessitate 8==============D.

This product was not meant to be bought for people to use for themselves. This was meant to be bought as a gift for others! Think about it...the recipient opens the present, it's this LOL keyboard thing, everyone laughs, you get off the hook for buying something, and the thing gets discarded after two days of use because it's hogging a USB slot. TFA is slashdotted but if the price is $12-20 then it's prime gift category, because people will spend that much.

What we need is a webcam that reads your face expression and translates it into an emoticon, now that would be a marvelous time saver. Think I will go to the patent bureau right away and wait until someone implements it to cash in ! $-)

If you can type reasonably fast then the only time you would need it is when you're typing one-handed... and that's the time you'd be least likely to want other people to know what your facial expression looks like!